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Manual Removal Guide for Tuguu.VAFPlayer

The following instructions have been created to help you to get rid of "Tuguu.VAFPlayer" manually.
Use this guide at your own risk; software should usually be better suited to remove malware, since it is able to look deeper.

Tuguu.VAFPlayer pretends to be the Adobe Flashplayer to get downloaded and installed. The installer fraudulently tries to install various adware.

Removal Instructions:

Installed Software List:

You can try to uninstall products with the names listed below; for items identified by other properties or to avoid malware getting active again on uninstallation, use Spybot-S&D or RunAlyzer to locate and get rid of these entries.

Products that have a key or property named "{EBE677C0-CBCB-4EBF-8098-E27E1B5271CF}".

Files:

Please use Windows Explorer or another file manager of your choice to locate and delete these files.

The file at "<$APPDATA>\player\config.ini".

The file at "<$APPDATA>\player\playlist.vpl".

The file at "<$COMMONDESKTOP>\VAFPlayer.lnk".

The file at "<$COMMONPROGRAMS>\VAFPlayer\Uninstall.lnk".

The file at "<$COMMONPROGRAMS>\VAFPlayer\VAFPlayer.lnk".

The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Tuguu SL\VAFPlayer\AxInterop.WMPLib.dll".

The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Tuguu SL\VAFPlayer\ComponentFactory.Krypton.Toolkit.dll".

The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Tuguu SL\VAFPlayer\FileBrowser.dll".

The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Tuguu SL\VAFPlayer\Interop.WMPLib.dll".

The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Tuguu SL\VAFPlayer\libreria.ico".

The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Tuguu SL\VAFPlayer\Newtonsoft.Json.dll".

The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Tuguu SL\VAFPlayer\UltraID3Lib.dll".

The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Tuguu SL\VAFPlayer\Uninstall.exe".

The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Tuguu SL\VAFPlayer\uninstall.ico".

The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Tuguu SL\VAFPlayer\VAFPlayer.exe.config".

The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Tuguu SL\VAFPlayer\VAFPlayer.exe".

The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Tuguu SL\VAFPlayer\VAFPlayer.InstallState".

The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Tuguu SL\VAFPlayer\VAFUpdate.exe".

The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Tuguu SL\VAFPlayer\wmp.dll".

Make sure you set your file manager to display hidden and system files. If Tuguu.VAFPlayer uses rootkit technologies, use our RootAlyzer or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins.
You will have to use a global search for files without a name specified. Be extra careful, because just the name might not be enough to identify files!

Folders:

Please use Windows Explorer or another file manager of your choice to locate and delete these folders.

The directory at "<$APPDATA>\player".

The directory at "<$COMMONPROGRAMS>\VAFPlayer".

The directory at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Tuguu SL\VAFPlayer".

The directory at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Tuguu SL".

Make sure you set your file manager to display hidden and system files. If Tuguu.VAFPlayer uses rootkit technologies, use our RootAlyzer or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins.
You will have to use a global search for files without a name specified. Be extra careful, because just the name might not be enough to identify folders!

Registry:

You can use regedit.exe (included in Windows) to locate and delete these registry entries.

A key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ named "VafPlayer", plus associated values.